Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer says one person has died after a car plowed into a mass of Unite the Right counter-protesters.

“I am heartbroken that a life has been lost here. I urge all people of good will–go home,” he wrote.

Police have not yet confirmed the fatality.

This is all in the name of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, which the city of Charlottesville voted to remove from a public park. Latter-day Confederates and “alt rightists” — precious snowflakes that they are — decided this was the equivalent of a physical attack on their persons, and reacted with lawsuits, riots, violence, and now murder — i.e. a car having been driven into a crowd of counter-protestors.

As I’ve argued many times, Confederacy-worship is asinine, irrational, and stupid. The Confederacy lost the Civil War. In every conceivable way — militarily, economically, politically, diplomatically, administratively, societally — it was a failed state. It’s gone. Over. Finished. Done. Toast. Relegated to the dustbin of history. Confederate relics have only one place in the modern US, and that’s in fucking museums.

It’s time for angry Southerners (and other “alt rightists” from other parts of the country who’ve taken up their juvenile cause) to fucking grow the hell up, for the first time in their sniveling little lives, and get over the fact that their precious Confederacy is the failed state it was. I understand they like feeling like martyrs … but they’re inventing persecution which, in fact, does not exist. No one and nothing is harmed by the removal of a General Lee statue from a public park. No one! It literally cannot cause them any fucking damage … at all.